Comments on: Getting Ready For Going Full Time

By: sp

sp — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:12:56 +0000

Congratulations! I’ve been following your blog for a little over year and the content has been a great inspiration. Best of luck.

Also, the new buttons look good and I agree with nnc’s suggestion on the microcopy, that seems much clearer.

By: Oleg from OglieOglie

Oleg from OglieOglie — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:29:01 +0000

New buttons are looking MUCH better.
Have you thought of dropping the “Quick Links” header? It looks like it’s just taking up space.

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:06:54 +0000

That last comment has some excellent advice that, if you don’t consider it, will have me hopping on a plane to beat some advice into you.

Hopped over here to mention that time management is, for me, the biggest obstacle to mISVhood. I don’t know if I’m representative of your readers (I’m probably representative for my demographic), but I sure would appreciate as much advice as you’re willing to impart on that subject.

By: Steve Moyer

Steve Moyer — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:49:18 +0000

Patrick:

March 31st is also my last day at the big corporate job. After nine years of being dismayed at how little we get done, I’m going back to the start-up life. If you simply define the term uISV by the number of employees then I guess the new business fits, but it couldn’t be more different from yours. B2B sales of large systems in a tough industry where our collective 60+ years of contacts and domain expertise are the only reason this could possibly work.

But enough about me … first I want to offer a big congratulations! I’ve been very impressed with how you’ve used processes to multiply your time. A man after my own “E-Myth” heart! Having built several multi-million dollar start-ups, I can tell you that you would make a great CEO of a small company. The needs are the same – only the scale changes (though many people don’t recognize this, go get funding, try to do something that’s too big for them and fail).

So, in an effort to celebrate your upcoming milestone and as a big thank you for the work you’ve put into this blog and the other successes you’ve inspired, I’d like to offer you a present. There is truth to the adage that it’s easier to sell a second product to an existing customer than it is to acquire a new one. And you’ve got a huge set of word lists and a base of customers in the education market. So I’d like to offer you a block of code that packs those word lists into a word search using the smallest block of letters possible. It’s in Python, so converting it to Ruby should be trivial. The only missing part is the creation of an answer key.

E-mail me if you’re interested and once again … a big congratulations!

By: Listen to Getting Ready For Going Full Time - MicroISV on a Shoestring - Hear a Blog

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:41:36 +0000

[...] I’m quitting my day job as of March 31st. Today I was running out to lunch prior to a day packed with various uISV-centered activities and it struck me: crikey, this is really happening. I’m exhilarated and that weird not-scared-not-settled feeling one gets when one has run out the door in a hurry and is [...] Original post [...]

By: nnc

nnc — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:16:13 +0000

Congrats Patrick! Best of luck with your new full-time venture.

Looking forward to your retrospective posts about doing Bingo Card Creator on the side.

In the mean time, I think A/B test #3 would be better worded as “You don’t need a Paypal account to pay with your credit card.”. Current version makes it sound, to me at least, like you don’t need a BCC account to pay with CC through Paypal.